Ram Sharma was a nineteenth-century Indo-Anglian

Anglo-Indian

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 poet

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 who alternately criticized and praised the government in his poems and newspaper articles. He began his literary career in the 1860s but pursued steady writing only after his retirement from a government post in 1878. He practiced Yoga for 40 years.

Poetry

His poem, Ode on The Meeting of Congress

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 at Allahabad

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, on 26 December, 1888 was considered one of his most powerful poems. Some of his other poems are:

• Willow Drops, published 1874-75
• Our Greetings to His Royal Highness Albert Victor of Wales, which first brought him to prominence
• Siva Ratri, which has similarities to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
• Bhagobati Gita, a Keatsian expression of Ram Sharma's mystical perceptions
• The Last Day, a dream fantasy, together with Siva Ratri and Bhagobati Gita are the most expressive of Ram Sharma's genius and talent.
• Unheard Melodies, a fluent and elegant expression of his deeper spiritual experiences
• Mohinee
• Stanzas to Lord Lytton's Infant Son
• Song of the Indian Conservative
• To Our Pseudo-social Reformers
• India's Welcome---To Mr Bradlaugh and Her Other English Friends
• India to Britain
• To England
• The Jolly Beggars
• In Memoriam: Michael Madhusudan Dutt and A Prayer.

External links

• Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology: 1829-1947/edited by Eunice De Souza. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005, xxxi, 341 p., ISBN 0-19-567724-2.